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(Gerry) Harvey: charity not so sweet – Michael Evans

by admin | November 21, 2008 | Australia's move to the Right, Homelessness, Pensions and unemployment benefits, Political issues

The retail king Gerry Harvey may have a personal fortune of about $1.6 billion but the Harvey Norman founder thinks donating to charity is “just wasted”. Asked in a new book about the role he and Harvey Norman play in the community, Mr Harvey said...

Hillsong Church ‘spent indigenous grants on staff’

by admin | February 13, 2006 | Corruption, Indigenous affairs, Legal matters, Political issues, Religion

Indigenous development grants to Hillsong‘s benevolent arm have gone almost entirely to employing and providing offices for church staff, with only a trickle reaching Aborigines. In one case, Hillsong Emerge spent $315,000 in federal funds employing seven of...

Hillsong denies bribe allegation – Jonathon Pearlman

by admin | December 23, 2005 | Corruption, Indigenous affairs, Political issues, Religion

Pastor Carl Lentz, center, leads a Hillsong New York City Church service at Irving Plaza in New York. (Tina Fineberg/AP Photo) THE Hillsong Church has denied it used an Aboriginal community to secure a federal grant and then tried to bribe the community to keep...

Saddam key in early CIA plot (2003)

by admin | April 10, 2003 | Climate Change, Corruption, Foreign policy, Military, Political issues

Saddam: Part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980...

Australia and the Holocaust: A Koori Perspective – Gary Foley

by admin | February 3, 1997 | Australia's move to the Right, Corruption, Education, Homelessness, Racism

Introduction In November 1938, throughout Germany a major Nazi pogrom was conducted against the Jewish community. This notorious event was dubbed kristallnacht and signalled a dramatic upsurge of violence, intimidation and persecution of Germany’s Jewish...